Swing bracket



Oct. 30, 1945,

P. DE BRUIN SWING BRACKET Filed May 1, 1944 INVENTOR. v v ef rfiefiruzk BY Patented Oct. 30, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SWING BRACKET Peter De Bruin, Monterey Park, Calif.

Application May 1, 1944, Serial No. 533,543

'1 Claim.

The invention relates to swing brackets of the character of that shown in my United States Patent 2,297,877 of October 6, 1942, and aims to provide important features of improvement which will insure the safety of swinging children. These features will be more specifically pointed out in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a face view of one form of the bracket.

Fig. 2 is a side view of the structure of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a face view of a molded bracket, and

Fig. 4 is a side view of a modified fOrm of bracket.

Like numerals designate like parts in all of the figures of the drawing.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, 5 designates a plate having screw holes 6 formed therein by which the plate may be secured to any vertical face of a support. The lower end of the plate is bent to partly circular form to constitute an eye I, and its terminal edge is bent outwardly to constitute a guide lip 8. The parts so far described constitute the fixed member of the bracket and this member receives and swingingly supports the loop 9 to which the end of the swing rope (not shown) is tied.

The loop comprises the substantially, horizontal inturned terminal ends I!) and the substantially horizontal runs H which underlie the eye and by their presence prevent upward movement of loop 9 as long as said loop lies anywhere near the vertical. Consequently, children can swing violently without danger of having the ends ll] of the loop jump out of the eye. When it is desired to remove the swing rope with the attached loops, said loops must be manually moved to the dotted line position illustrated at 9 in Fig. 2, or to a position where the horizontal runs II of the loops no longer underlie the eye. Then the ends I Omay be moved upwardly out of the open top of the eye. When the swing is again to be hung the lip 8 aids in guiding the ends l into place.

Thus it will be seen that, like the bracket of my prior patent, the device of the present invention provides a bracket by means of whichv childrens swings can be easily hung or taken down, but with the added advantage that the swinging part of the bracket can never be accidentally dislodged by rough play. The ropes are never subjected to chafing because they are tied to a part which itself swings.

The structure of Fig, 3 comprises the plate like plate 5 of Fig. 1. However, here the parts maygae made of plastic and the loop I5 is molded to form the eye l6, web I! which underlies the eye, and bar [8 which takes the place of the inturned ends 10 of Fig. l and lies in and has its bearing in the eye. This bar may be round and be moved out of the open top of the eye when the loop is swung to move web I! from beneath the eye, as previously described with respect to Fig. 1; or said bar may be shaped in cross sec-,

tion as illustrated in Fig. 4. Here it will be seen that the underside of the bar is of partly circular formation and corresponds to and bears in the eye. However, the top of the bar is fiattened at 18 so that when the loop is tilted to the position illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 4 it may be removed through the open top of the eye.

It will be noted that in Fig. 4 the plate 19 which carries the eye 20 lies horizontally. This provides means whereby the bracket may be secured to a horizontal surface, such as the top of a door jamb, underside of an arch, or otherwise. It is clear that it makes no difierence whether the supporting plate lies horizontally or vertically, as far as the operation of the eye and loop is concerned. The plate of Fig. 2 could be bent like that of Fig. 4, if desired.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction set forth, but that it includes within its purview whatever changes fairly come within either the terms or the spirit of the appended claim.

Having described my invention, what I claim 1s:

A swing bracket comprising a fixed part having a lower horizontal bearing eye extending thereacross, said eye being open at the top, and a movable loop comprising a rope receiving eye at its lower portion, a horizontal bearing portion at itstop dimensioned to fit and be journaled in the horizontal bearing eye of the fixed part and an intermediate transverse portion underlying the last named eye and close enough thereto to prevent said bearing portion from moving upwardly out of its bearing eye until said transverse portion has been swung from beneath said bearing eye, and wherein the underside of the horizontal bearing portion of the loop is upon the arc of a circle and the upper side thereof is flattened, the width of the opening at the top of the bearing eye being less than the diameter of the arcuate part of the bearing portion and greater than the Width of said bearing portion upon a line perpendicular to the flattened part thereof.

PETER DE BRUIN. 

